Cannabis Honey is a Superfood We Should All Be Eating

So delicious. So nutritious. Cannabis honey is the food you need to be eating for your overall health.

Honey is the only food that can’t spoil and has been used as a medicinal supplement the world over for thousands of years. Honey also makes a wonderful base for different herbs, including cannabis. The sweet combination of cannabis in honey is the best of all the things: delicious, nutritious, versatile, and healing. In fact, the combination could be considered a superfood due to its numerous health benefits. As honey nourishes the body, cannabis treats and provides relief from what ails it.

Tim Lovett, director of public affairs at the British Beekeepers Association, corroborated these claims by saying that indeed bees can be trained to look for certain compounds, such as resin, from the cannabis plant. He saw this happening in a lab where bees were trained to detect explosives with their tongues. Once the bees collect the resin, they take it back to the hive where they work on it to produce ‘cannabis honey’. This cannabis infused honey can be ingested orally as syrup, spread on bread or used in any other way one loves to use honey.

DIY Cannabis Honey

If you can’t find bees to train to make you some cannabis honey, you can make your own honey at home. Remember that honey is best to work with in warm temperatures. Also, note that cannabinoids do not bind to honey naturally; an oil base will help keep it from separating out. Secondly, you will need to decarboxylate your cannabis before combining with the honey. This is the process of activating the inactive THCa into the psychoactive THC compound. However, if you wish to have your cannabis infused honey as non psychoactive, feel free to skip the decarboxylation step. THCa has it’s own health benefits, as does CBD.

What you will need

Put the decarboxylated cannabis herb in a cheesecloth, tie and place in a jar

Pour the honey on top

Place the jar in a bed of hot water; you could use a slow cooker. Let the honey simmer but do not allow it to boil. This could take between 4-8 hours.

Allow the mixture to cool down then put it in a refrigerator.

Just a Word About Endangered Honey Bees

Honey bees are quite an interesting species; it is remarkable how organized they are. They live in colonies and have their roles split into three. There is the queen bee that basically “runs the show;” she lays eggs and directs the other bees. The worker bees forage for food; these are the ones we see buzzing around. Finally, the drones mate with the queen and female worker bees tend to the hive. Bees are key pollinators for plants on Earth and, unfortunately, honey bees are slowly becoming an endangered species due to reasons such as colony collapse disorder and the use of dangerous pesticides. If this population collapse is to continue, we may lose all the plants that bees pollinate to the point that human survival is at stake.

There are a few simple things that you can do around your house to help the bees: don’t pull the dandelions as these are the first food for bees when they wake up from their winter nap; plant your garden in clusters of flowers to make easy targets for bees; and plan your garden so there are continuous blooms from spring through fall. NEVER use pesticides on your lawn. Why ever would you do that?